The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-21
PERSONAL.

TALMAGE will be the Decoration day orator at
the Academy of Music in New York.
THE wife of Supreme Court Justice Strong,
retired, is in seriously falling health.
THE Empress of Austria walked twenty-five
miles the other day without taking a rest.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA, who has been i'll for
n year, has rcgained his health by sojourn at
Rome
SECRETARY WHITNEY denies the report that he
intends to- sell Grasslands' to the Vanderbits
or anybody else.
IT is said that the Car of Russia has photo
graph alb'im containing pictures of all the men
who have tried to XIII him.
THE opera house at Northampton, Mass, is
always crowded on Sundays at the Bible read
ings of Mr.. George W. Cable.
THE Mission Bells of Monterey" is the title
of new song by Bret Harte. The music was
composed by Charles Gounod.
JOHN RANDOLPH TUCKER, of Virginia. will de
liver the Grafton before the graduating class of
the Yale Law School, June 20.
Mr.. ABELI. of the Baltimore sun, with $40
100000 or more at his back, is said to be the
richest newspaper man in the world.
f. S. CLEVELAND, Charles Dudley Warner. and
Robert Cot are the committee on the Nathan
Hale statue 10 be erected In the capitol at Hart
ford, Conn, next autumn.
ROBERT BONNER, Of the New York Ledger,
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copy of hundreds of others In New York. He is
worth S5,000,0O0 or S0,000,000
president CLEVELAND has received an invita-
tion for himself and Mrs. Cleveland to spend the
month of June at Fauquier White Sulphur
Springs instead of remaining at Oak View.
Crown PRINCE RUDOLPH, of Austria, during
three days at BercZencze, recently shot with his
own gun forty-seven head of roebucks. a feat
unprecedented in the annals of European sport
bered her mother-in-law's birthday. She sent
the aged Queen of Hanover a bouquet of lilies
OF the valley with a message that She sent as
many kisses as it contained blossoms The
Queen shed tears over the loving token.
JOSEPH X SHuLTz, a well-known farmer of
Lancaster county, Pa, has just completed sales
of his tobacco crop, showing a total yield of
$3.50 per acre for last year The census makes
Lancaster the richest agricultural county in the
Union.
ANNA NJ. LoSosuoRE PoTTs, NJ D., is the name
of an American QualereSs who is lecturipg on
physiology and hygiene to London auditors
She boldly asserts that the human race is not
descended from monkeys and that the reglila-
lion dress OF men and women Is ridicuously I'M
healthtUl She Possesses a strong vein of
American humor' and Is drawing large houses
FIFTY YEARS AGO the Rev. s. F. Smith. now of
Boston, wrote My Country, 'Tis Of Thee" on
Monday night this gentleman. now 20 years of
age but still remarkably hearty, was entertained
ny tne aulCS OF the Grand Army OF the Repub-
lie at their parlOrs In Chicago. Though the re-
cepiion was also in honor OF the reverend poets
wife, she was not present owing 20 IN health A
very enjoyable evening was spent
"GEoRGE W. CHLDs owns the Philadelphia
Ledger, and need not tell men Of ordinary in
formation, says Joe Howard, that Mr. Childs
who never accepted a public Office in his life;
that Mr.. Childs who could have been Minister
TO England that Mr.. Childs. who WIS offered
repeatedly teat in our national cabinet has
ever had the friendgbp. the esteem, the confl-
dence Of the President of the United STATES he
he Democrat or Republican